Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout

30 reviews

sofslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

the second book gave me some serious slow ass burn and i LOVED it. it got a smidge repetitive at times but i was able to overlook it for the sake of ✨romance✨. casteel blew my back out every time he opened his dimpled mouth and i am hanging on by a thread and very satisfied. not gonna lie i got confused by the world building at times, it was doing the mostest in its attempts to really get me lost BUT i think i got the gist of it in the end. overall, i really enjoyed the second instalment of the blood and ash series and can’t wait to pick up the third once i get back home 🥰

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexual assault, and Cursing

Minor: Rape

bookishbette's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

sierraechobravo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

msta9789's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

there is no way to describe how this book made me feel. the best way to describe the feeling is warm and fuzzy. Casteel. I love Casteel with my entire heart. His personality is my favorite thing, and Kieran. Goodness I love them all so much. Go read this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

semelos's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and Cursing

Minor: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

vicky1318's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

taymariereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, and Child death

alexwhy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

The second installment of this series was a disappointment. The first book, From Blood and Ash, had all the trappings of a great fantasy/romance series; the character development was great, the world-building was pretty good, the relationships between the characters made sense, and I was compelled to continue reading to see what happened next. The writing is fine but the plot was interesting, so I was looking forward to the second book. The only similarities between the first book and this one were the character's names. I feel like the characters just fell apart, their personalities changed, their relationships made less sense, and the character development basically stopped, which is wild, because you meet so many new characters in this book. 

The writing became extremely repetitive and NOTHING HAPPENED in this book, until like the last 75 pages. It was a lot of inner monologues that went NOWHERE and the push and pull between the main character, Poppy, and her love interest, Hawke/whatever his actual name is, becomes extremely tiresome and frankly, boring. We get it, there is tension, please move on. There is this whole thing about how violent Poppy is, which Hawke apparently loves, and earns the respect of his people, which would be fine if it wasn't the content of like 30% of the total dialogue in the book. The dialogue also changes in the worst way, from sort of a believable "olde english" formality in the first book, to characters rolling up on each other like "hey" and "totally" and other extremely contemporary IRL colloquialisms. Something that I didn't notice, but another reviewer pointed out is the use of words from our world, like "Champagne", which couldn't exist in a high fantasy world if France didn't exist in that world (spoiler: it doesn't). It was sloppy and lazy and honestly really killed this world for me. This book could have been probably 200 fewer pages and nothing about the plot would have changed at all. 

Am I going to read the third installment? Usually, I would say yes because I do love a good hate-read, but I care so little for these characters and their destinies that I'll probably just skip it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Murder

carolinefran's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Body shaming, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Infidelity

pos1t1vel1fe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse